Workshop on virtualization and multi-core technologies for LHC

from Monday, 14 April 2008 (08:00) to Wednesday, 16 April 2008 (18:30)
CERN (40-S2-D01)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
14 Apr 2008
15 Apr 2008
16 Apr 2008
AM
09:00
Experience and plans on adapting software for multi-core (until 12:30) (40-S2-D01)
09:00 Introduction to the R&D project - vincenzo innocente (CERN)   (40-S2-D01)
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09:30 ATLAS experiences running athena and TDAQ software - Werner Wiedenmann (High Energy Physics)   (40-S2-D01)
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10:00 Experience in parallel programming using Python in LHCb - Dr Pere Mato (CERN)   (40-S2-D01)
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10:30 --- coffe break ---
11:00 CMS experience and plans - Dr Peter Elmer (PRINCETON UNIVERSITY)   (40-S2-D01)
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11:30 First Results in a Thread-Parallel Geant4 - Xin Dong (Northeastern University, Boston, USA) Gene Cooperman   (40-S2-D01)
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12:00 Proof: experience and plan - Gerardo GANIS (CERN) Fons Rademakers (CERN)   (40-S2-D01)
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09:00
Hands on and Demo session (until 13:00) (40-S2-D01)
09:00 Performance measurements on multi-core - Mr Sverre Jarp (CERN) Katarzyna Maria Dziedziniewicz (Warsaw University of Technology)   (40-S2-D01)
perfmon2 documentation
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tutorial
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 rBuilder Demo - rPath   (40-S2-D01)
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PM
14:00
Welcome and Technology session (until 18:00) (40-S2-D01)
14:00 Welcome and Introduction - Dr Pere Mato (CERN)   (40-S2-D01)
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14:30 Moving from Single-Core to Multi/Many-Core Computing: Opportunities and Challenges - H Cornelius (Intel)   (40-S2-D01)
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15:00 The issues facing CERN and HEP in the many-core computing era - Mr Sverre Jarp (CERN)   (40-S2-D01)
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15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00 Virtualization using VMware technology - Richard Garsthagen (VMware)   (40-S2-D01)
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16:45 From Application to Appliance - Building Software Appliances with rPath's rBuilder - Tim Gerla (rPath)   (40-S2-D01)
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17:30 Peer-to-Peer Technology in Grid Computing - The Igor File System and Beyond - Prof. Thomas Fuhrmann (TU Munich)   (40-S2-D01)
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13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Virtualization in Experiments (until 18:30) (40-S2-D01)
14:00 Introduction to CernVM project - Predrag Buncic (CERN)   (40-S2-D01)
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15:00 ALICE experience and plans - Stefan Boettger (Kirchhoff-Institut fuer Physik (KIP)-Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet)   (40-S2-D01)
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15:30 Comparison of Virtual Machine Performance running ATLAS software - Yushu Yao (LBL)   (40-S2-D01)
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16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30 ATLAS experience and plans - Amir Farbin (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN))   (40-S2-D01)
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17:00 HEP Applications in Virtual Machines - Jakob Blomer   (40-S2-D01)
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17:30 Virtualisation in gLite certification - Andreas Unterkircher   (40-S2-D01)
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18:00 CernVM Support Infrastructure - Carlos Aguado Sanchez (CERN)   (40-S2-D01)
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13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Discussion and Sum up session (until 18:00) (40-S2-D01)
14:00 Multi-core: summary and discussion - vincenzo innocente (CERN)   (40-S2-D01)
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15:00 Virtualization: Summary and Discussion - Predrag Buncic (CERN)   (40-S2-D01)
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